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20072026
most citedAtomic and electronic reconstruction at van der Waals interface in twisted bilayer graphene

711 citations · 4.2k across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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40 papers

cs.LG2026

The AI Theorist reveals excitonic structure in -RuCl

Hongjian Zhou, Xianfan Nie, Sean Wu +5

Advances in experimental instrumentation and automation generate increasingly rich datasets, but turning experimental observations into microscopic understanding remains a bottlene…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Observation and Control of the Magnetic Photogalvanic Effect from Strongly Bound Excitons

Xianfan Nie, Tarun Patel, Hyunggeun Lee +11

Photogalvanic effects arising from the quantum geometry of noncentrosymmetric materials are promising for next-generation light-harvesting devices that do not require a built-in el…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Lessons from -RuCl3 for pursuing quantum spin liquid physics in atomically thin materials

Claudia Ojeda-Aristizabal, Xiaohu Zheng, Changsong Xu +20

Quantum spin liquids can arise from Kitaev magnetic interactions, and exhibit fractionalized excitations with the potential for a topological form of quantum computation. This revi…

quant-ph2025

Super-Moiré Spin Textures in Twisted Antiferromagnets

King Cho Wong, Ruoming Peng, Eric Anderson +15

Stacking two-dimensional (2D) layered materials offers a powerful platform to engineer electronic and magnetic states. In general, the resulting states, such as Moiré magnetism, ha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Tuning Coupled Toroidic and Polar Orders in a Bilayer Antiferromagnet

Chuangtang Wang, Xiaoyu Guo, Zixin Zhai +5

Magnetic toroidal order features a loop-like arrangement of magnetic dipole moments, thus breaking both spatial inversion (P) and time-reversal (T) symmetries while preserving thei…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Direct observation of distinct bulk and edge nonequilibrium spin accumulation in ultrathin MoTe

Fangchu Chen, Kamal Das, Bowen Yang +11

Low-symmetry two-dimensional (2D) topological materials such as MoTe host efficient charge-to-spin conversion (CSC) mechanisms that can be harnessed for novel electronic and sp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 20 cited

Macroscopic Tunneling Probe of Moiré Spin Textures in Twisted CrI

Bowen Yang, Tarun Patel, Meixin Cheng +10

Various noncollinear spin textures and magnetic phases have been predicted in twisted two-dimensional CrI due to competing ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) interl…

physics.optics2024★ 19 cited

Gate-Tunable Multi-Band van der Waals Photodetector and Polarization Sensor

Daozhi Shen, HeeBong Yang, Tarun Patel +5

A single photodetector with tunable detection wavelengths and polarization sensitivity can potentially be harnessed for diverse optical applications ranging from imaging and sensin…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 54 cited

Magnetic anisotropy reversal driven by structural symmetry-breaking in monolayer α-RuCl3

Bowen Yang, Yin Min Goh, Suk Hyun Sung +14

Layered α-RuCl3 is a promising material to potentially realize the long-sought Kitaev quantum spin liquid with fractionalized excitations. While evidence of this exotic state has b…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Persistent photogenerated state attained by femtosecond laser irradiation of thin -MoTe

Meixin Cheng, Shazhou Zhong, Nicolás Rivas +9

Laser excitation has emerged as a means to expose hidden states of matter and promote phase transitions on demand. Such laser induced transformations are often rendered possible ow…

physics.optics2022★ 17 cited

Semiconductor nanowire metamaterial for broadband near-unity absorption

Burak Tekcan, Brad van Kasteren, Sasan V. Grayli +6

The realization of a semiconductor near-unity absorber in the infrared will provide new capabilities to transform applications in sensing, health, imaging, and quantum information…

physics.optics2022★ 19 cited

High-Performance Mid-IR to Deep-UV van der Waals Photodetectors Capable of Local Spectroscopy at Room Temperature

Daozhi Shen, HeeBong Yang, Christian Spudat +13

The ability to perform broadband optical spectroscopy with sub-diffraction-limit resolution is highly sought-after for a wide range of critical applications. However, sophisticated…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 5 cited

Photoinduced Interlayer Dynamics in T-MoTe: A Broadband Pump-Probe Study

Meixin Cheng, Shazhou Zhong, Nicolas Rivas +9

We report on time-resolved broadband transient reflectivity (tr-bb-TR) measurements performed on a bulk single crystal of T-MoTe as a function of the incident pump fluence…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 6 cited

Observation and manipulation of a phase separated state in a charge density wave material

Sean M. Walker, Tarun Patel, Junichi Okamoto +8

The 1T polytype of TaS has been studied extensively as a strongly correlated system. As 1T-TaS is thinned towards the 2D limit, its phase diagram shows si…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 1 cited

Infrared imaging of samples in ultra high pressure diamond anvil cells

Tarun Patel, A. Drozdov, V. S. Minkov +5

We describe an experimental platform that generates infrared images of micrometer-sized samples in the high pressure region of a diamond anvil cell. Using a 2.3 micron laser as a s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 26 cited

Structural Monoclinicity and Its Coupling to Layered Magnetism in Few-Layer

Xiaoyu Guo, Wencan Jin, Zhipeng Ye +13

Using polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopy, we investigate layer number, temperature, and magnetic field dependence of Raman spectra in one- to four-layer . L…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 113 cited

Giant -axis nonlinear anomalous Hall effect in T-MoTe and WTe

Archana Tiwari, Fangchu Chen, Shazhou Zhong +11

While the anomalous Hall effect can manifest even without an external magnetic field, time reversal symmetry is nonetheless still broken by the internal magnetization of the sample…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 8 cited

Quantum engineering with hybrid magnonics systems and materials

D. D. Awschalom, C. H. R. Du, R. He +19

Quantum technology has made tremendous strides over the past two decades with remarkable advances in materials engineering, circuit design and dynamic operation. In particular, the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 115 cited

Roadmap for gallium arsenide spin qubits

Ferdinand Kuemmeth, Hendrik Bluhm

Gate-defined quantum dots in gallium arsenide (GaAs) have been used extensively for pioneering spin qubit devices due to the relative simplicity of fabrication and favourable elect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 42 cited

Tunable layered-magnetism-assisted magneto-Raman effect in a two-dimensional magnet

Wencan Jin, Zhipeng Ye, Xiangpeng Luo +13

We use a combination of polarized Raman spectroscopy experiment and model magnetism-phonon coupling calculations to study the rich magneto-Raman effect in the two-dimensional (2D)…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 35 cited

Photocurrent Imaging of Multi-Memristive Charge Density Wave Switching in Two-Dimensional 1T-TaS2

Tarun Patel, Junichi Okamoto, Tina Dekker +6

Transport studies of atomically thin 1T-TaS2 have demonstrated the presence of intermediate resistance states across the nearly commensurate (NC) to commensurate (C) charge density…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 66 cited

Observation of the polaronic character of excitons in a two-dimensional semiconducting magnet

Wencan Jin, Hyun Ho Kim, Zhipeng Ye +15

Exciton dynamics can be strongly affected by lattice vibrations through electron-phonon coupling. This is rarely explored in two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors. Focusing on bi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 82 cited

Magnetic field-induced quantum phase transitions in a van der Waals magnet

Siwen Li, Zhipeng Ye, Xiangpeng Luo +10

Exploring new parameter regimes to realize and control novel phases of matter has been a main theme in modern condensed matter physics research. The recent discovery of 2D magnetis…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 11 cited

Generation and detection of coherent longitudinal acoustic waves in ultrathin 1T'-MoTe2

Nicolas Rivas, Shazhou Zhong, Tina Dekker +9

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides have attracted substantial attention owing to their versatile functionalities and compatibility with current nanofabrication technologies.…